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abort

DEFINITIONS OF: abort

1

v terminate before completion

“abort the mission”
“abort the process running on my computer”
Type of:
end, terminate
bring to an end or halt

v terminate a pregnancy by undergoing an abortion

Types:
miscarry
suffer a miscarriage
Type of:
discharge, eject, exhaust, expel, release
eliminate (a substance)

v cease development, die, and be aborted

“an aborting fetus”
Type of:
buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, croak, decease, die, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it
pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life

n the act of terminating a project or procedure before it is completed

“I wasted a year of my life working on an abort”
“he sent a short message requesting an abort due to extreme winds in the area”
Type of:
conclusion, ending, termination
the act of ending something
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